Economic Impact
of Abortion
By Dennis M. Howard
© Copyright, 2011 by Dennis M. Howard. For permission to reprint
or distribute this article, write to: The Movement for a Better America, Inc.,
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In 1968, Paul R. Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, his sensational forecast of a world doomed by a population explosion. In it he flatly predicted: “In the 1970's and '80's hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash program embarked upon now.”
Not one of Ehrlich's predictions came to pass. Instead, the Supreme Court declared abortion on demand to be the law of the land in 1973, and launched the slaughter of 54 million American babies --not by famine and starvation, but by deliberate execution at the hands of a greedy abortion industry.
Worldwide, an estimated 1.5 billion babies have been aborted. And the social and economic cost has been as devastating as anything Ehrlich predicted based on his paranoid fears of a population explosion that never happened.
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Pro-abortion politicians will give Planned
Parenthood $1100 for every baby
they abort in the U.S. this year.
To win the battle against abortion,
we need to a) defund Planned Parenthood
and b) prevent future abortions through preventive
education aimed at young people 13-30.
That's when 80% of all abortions occur.
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How abortion is
destroying America
54 million abortions is equivalent to the population of our 72 largest cities, from New York all the way down to cities the size of Ft. Wayne, IN. That's the toll abortion has already reached at the current rate of over 1,200,000 abortions a year. It’s equal to or greater than the human loss we would have experienced from an all-out nuclear war. Yet we are told to sit passively by and endure it by the pro-abortion ideologues of the left who dominate our culture, our media, our politics and our courts.
It adds up to a 30% loss in the younger generation under age 45. The toll includes some 17.5 million African-American babies and 36.5 million others. That's about 3,485 times as many African-Americans as were lynched since the Civil War. It amounts to a holocaust against blacks and against the young. It is the greatest loss ever inflicted on any generation in history.
How can anyone with a conscience stand silent in the face of it?
Abortion has major social and economic costs as well. The estimated loss in U.S. GDP already exceeds $38 trillion -- more than twice our current national debt. That's why, even if abortion ends tomorrow, it will still take more than a generation to recover.
Nothing else has ever had a more depressing effect on the U.S. and the world economy. Meanwhile, it is being compounded by a dramatic decline in births in France, Germany, Italy, England, Spain, Japan and even China. Only the Muslim world continues to grow at a rapid clip. As a result, much of Europe will become predominantly Muslim within a generation. If we want a better world for ourselves and our children, we must raise a great hue and cry right now.
No kids, no future. It's as simple as that.
Abortion is also driving the greatest health care and education crisis in history. As baby boom nurses and teachers retire, we face a looming shortage of 1 million nurses and 2 million teachers. We also face critical shortages in key professions such as science, medicine, and higher education.
Abortion and more efficient birth control together have wiped out about half of our future human resources. With a growing number of older baby boomers in need of critical care, the only way to ease this crisis is to end abortion or drastically reduce health care for the elderly. Liberal politicians would rather cut Medicare than adopt a pro-natalist policy that would restore demographic balance.
Politicians promise to remedy these shortages but end up playing their usual games. They promise aggressive new training programs for nurses and teachers, but never bother to explain where they are going to get the people to fill them. Such programs can’t restore the vast human resources that have been poured down the population control rathole over the last 35 to 40 years.
Besides, such programs have a long history of being nothing but a sham. When former President Carter was Governor of Georgia, he signed a deal promising to train 2,000 workers for a new smoke detector factory but in less than three years, the company was wiped out by cheap imports and never hired more than 800 people even at its peak. Not much later, it sold the factory. All the promised jobs disappeared.
"Training programs" like that are a dime a dozen, but they rarely work. Meanwhile, you can't bring back the millions of lives that have already been sacrificed to the idol of abortion. The next time we see them will be on the Last Day when they show up to accuse those who stood by silently while they were slaughtered. Some folks are in for a huge surprise.
Another consequence of abortion is a disastrous shift in the supply-demand equation that underlies our economy. Kids contribute to demand even before they are born, but they don’t compete in the work force for 20 years.
That’s why 54 million abortions represent a huge loss in consumer demand. If those babies had been born, our fast-paced economy would still be going strong. Those we aborted were the future consumers, producers, parents and taxpayers we needed keep to keep our economy growing.
The new 4-2-1-0 family model is a dead end. Four grandparents who have two children, who then marry and have one child represent a huge loss in future growth. That's why China is starting to relent on its 1 child per family policy. Pursued, it means the end of China within 100 years. Russia already faces the same debacle, They no longer have enough younger women to raise a new generation -- and their population is forecast to decline by 33% by 2050.
If the U.S. doesn’t change direction, we could face the same fate.
Unless we end abortion soon, the U.S. faces a long term economic decline. As early as 1994, I began predicting the collapse of the stock market that finally came in 2000. In 1996, we published a special report and a video titled, “The Abortion Bomb.”
In 1998, I repeated the warning in an exchange with Gene Epstein, economics editor of Barron's. He predicted that the '90's rally would continue for another decade. I warned that a whole long list of stocks would soon take a tumble. It was a collapse that was inevitable based on the demographics.
The collapse began soon after the market top in March, 2000, and was followed by the one of the biggest market setbacks in history. A major factor in the 2000-2009 crisis was the inability of the Baby Bust generation to absorb the inflated real estate and other investments of the high-flying Baby Boomers as they approached retirement.
The decline in the rate of growth of personal incomes going on since the ‘70’s, combined with outsourcing and the shipment of manufacturing jobs overseas, and a 50% reduction in birth rates since 1970 all combined to bring about the crisis. Compounding things, of course, was everything going on in Washington and Wall Street to keep the bubble going. In the end, they failed.
Still another factor is the downstream loss in future tax revenues caused by high abortion rates and more efficient birth control. That loss already amounts to an estimated $19 or $20 trillion. With growth in government revenues, the ability of government to bail things out is itself compromised. The problem with socialist solutions is that the government itself won’t be able to afford them.
The abortion boom is also behind the crisis in Social Security and Medicare. In 1940, we had 145 people in the workforce for every person on Social Security. That's when it looked like a great idea! By 1952, the ratio had dropped to 16 to 1. It is now 3.1 to 1. In less than 20 years, it will be only 2 to 1. That's when the government Ponzi scheme will be all over.
To save these programs from bankruptcy, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that tax rates will have to rise as high as 82%. Guess who will pay the bill? Your children and grandchildren, that's who!
What can you do to help? The answer is not hiding from the controversy about abortion or from the even more polarizing political debate. This is not a Democratic or a Republican issue. It is a profoundly moral and human issue.
The solution is for we, the people, to speak up. We need more honest, open discussion in our homes, our churches, and our communities -- not continued censorship and suppression of the discussion by the politically correct media and the courts. Churches that remain silent will only have themselves to blame when the full crisis hits their congregations and their collection plates.
We urgently need to build a new pro-life majority by changing hearts and opening minds. Unless economic and social conservatives can unite on this common ground, chances for reversing the current direction in Washington are dim. That's why we've started a new Pro-Life Tea Party. We've got to awaken people to the direct connection between our moral, social, and cultural decline and the current global financial crisis in which America plays a central role.
That can only achieved by talking more honestly and frankly about the problem in our families, our communities and in our churches, and by educating young people about what is really at stake for their futures. We need to tell them that there is no rosy glow at the end of the abortion road.
Talk to your pastors and youth ministers. Write letters to the editor. Make calls to call-in talk shows. Send emails and write blogs. Reach out compassionately to those whose lives have been adversely affected by abortion. And by all means, spread the word about our website: www.mmovementforabetteramerica.org
Above all, give generously to support our new Campaign for Life. This campaign can't run on fumes any more than your automoblie can. When our voice goes silent, who will be there to speak out as we have? We can't continue this struggle without your help.
Remember, if all of those who believe in life could help change just one other person’s mind and heart today, we could have a pro-life majority tomorrow. Your effort plus lots of prayer can make the difference.
To join your voice with ours, write to us at
Movement for a Better America,
PO Box 472, Mt. Freedom, NJ 07970-0472.
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